Word: rural
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tennis players are manufactured on a centralized industrial model, with a five-year plan, a budget set in Prague and a chain of bureaucratic command that runs from rural sports committees up through the central committee of the Union of Physical Culture. According to the locker-room wisecrack, the only difference between player development and the national economy is that the tennis program works...
...prop up incomes for those who survive. Yet the adjustment process is a bitter one that promises hardship not only for farm families but for the thousands of already troubled farm-oriented businesses, including machinery builders, petrochemical companies, seed producers and the mom-and-pop shops that keep small rural towns alive...
Hastings, a native of Kennilworth, Ill., worked as a consultant with a Harvard international development team analyzing the impact of Indonesia's crumbling rice economy on rural incomes and employment in that country, Glamour said...
...current troubles are behind the almost palpable increase in white unease. In some rural areas, particularly in the Limpopo River valley near the Zimbabwe border, white farmers have formed home guard, or "commando," units, while the army sweeps the roads for mines at least twice a day. Many farmers in the area have built high security fences or walls around their homes, and all are connected by shortwave radio. One such farmer, Johan de Villiers, wears a Beretta pistol wherever he goes on his 2,000-acre spread. Two of his four sons are now farmers, and one of them...
...answer last week was a thundering no when 1.4 million of the republic's 3.5 million citizens went to the polls to vote on a constitutional amendment that would have changed the 49-year-old prohibition against divorce. The proposal was defeated by a thumping 63% to 36%. In rural areas the amendment was put down by as much...